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HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsI understand that, ahead of the reductions that were announced, 20% is currently spent on housing asylum seekers in this country. Clearly, if we can get the system running faster…25 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsI am not going to comment on leaks.25 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsYes, that is our aim.25 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsIt is important, in order to deal with the chaos that we inherited, to create a system that is faster, fairer and much easier to get through than the one we inherited. Unless the…25 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsIf my hon. and learned Friend wants to talk to me about any of the details, I would be happy to listen, but of course we want to operate that site properly and appropriately until…25 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsI do not think that safe routes would stop people trying to get into this country clandestinely. It is important that we can assert control at the border so that we decide who…25 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsYes. Illegal working arrests and visits have increased by 38%. More people have been arrested. More people have been fined. We are seeking to ban those who abuse illegal…25 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsWe inherited a system in chaos and a series of asylum contracts worth billions of pounds that were 10 years long, with a break clause in 2026, so we are looking seriously at what…25 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsI want to get out of hotels as quickly as is feasible. I will not name particular dates, because that is a pointless thing to do. We have to get through the appeals system and the…25 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsI certainly agree with the hon. Lady that the shadow Home Secretary sounds like a broken record; we are well used to him running that argument in this place. I also agree that the…25 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsOur aim is to close asylum hotels and get out of what we feel is an unsustainable situation as quickly as practicable.25 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsIt is clearly important that overseas development moneys are used to try to prevent the flows of people that have been the result of collapses in various countries. We in the Home…25 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsAsylum seekers who wait longer than a year are allowed to work, so long as that wait has not been caused by them—that is, a wait through no fault of their own. We have that system…25 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsI suggest that the right hon. Gentleman raises that issue with the Chancellor.25 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsNo.25 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsI will write to the hon. Gentleman.25 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsWe have put more resource into Europol to co-operate with European partners across borders. Operationally, we are working across Europe; we have a new agreement with the German…25 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsMy hon. Friend is correct that the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, which has been through Committee and is awaiting its Report stage, will create…25 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsI am not going to comment on leaks.25 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsThat certainly should not be happening. If my hon. Friend wants to talk to me about it, I will try to see what happened in that instance.25 Mar 2025